Tag: immigrant experience
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1,000 miles: step 86
We don’t want 2017 to roll onto 2018. In 2017, the immigrant community received several hits. Let’s change that.
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1,000 miles: step 75
I find primaries and elections emotionally difficult. I find a lot of things emotional, okay? But here’s why: I’ve been 18 and up for three years now but I can’t vote. Voting is another of those reminders of what privileges I don’t have because I’m still an immigrant. I hate conversations in election years because…
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1,000 miles: step 63|musings
It’s the third week into National Poetry Month, and I don’t have much to show other than a couple of musings. I don’t write down half of what I spend nights pondering over. I don’t write love poems. I don’t write angry poems. I don’t write pride poems… honestly imperfect human poems. … I was recently asked to…
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1,000 miles: step 50
A little over a year ago, I resolved to wake up earlier in the mornings. I wasn’t too successful. Though I’ve certainty made progress, particularly in the latter half of 2013 (thanks to a job over the summer and many calculus study sessions). And though time is far too precious, I find that making use of it…
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1,000 miles: step 48 & a lesson from @JuHong89
Over the weekend, my little brother and I tore up a box Mommy brought home. It held a small Christmas tree. We dressed it up with characteristically inartistic style. The last time we saw a Christmas tree in our home was the winter of ’07. I realize I’m lucky to have known a united family and to have a family, albeit…
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1,000 miles: step 39
My goal is to teach creative writing at the college level. I have several years to wait, but for the past year I’ve had the opportunity to tutor at my local library. For an hour, this teenager and a grown adult become student and teacher. Many of my “students,” are people who have never touched…
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1,000 miles: step 26
Thirteen days and counting until national immigration reform marches. When I hear the word “immigrant,” I think about the Latino community. I wonder if this is a generational mindset. It’s likely a shared experience of these times. Wednesday, I had a student from Afghanistan at the library. During our computer session, as people often do,…
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